A bleeding 30-year-old Ocklawaha woman found herself behind bars Thursday night after a violent battle over a light bulb in her mobile home.
A man called Marion County sheriff’s deputies for help and when they arrived at the residence in the Pines Mobile Home Park, he said that 30-year Yvonne Lavette Wilkerson had entered his bedroom and kicked his leg while telling him to change a light bulb. The man, whose age is 65 or older, said he had been living with Wilkerson for the past two years.
The man said Wilkerson was upset because she had stepped on a piece of glass from a broken light bulb and was bleeding. He said he got up and went into the bathroom to change the bulb. But the man said Wilkerson kicked his leg a second time while he was standing on a chair and he fell into a bathtub, the report says.
The man said stood up to leave the bathroom and felt something strike his back. He said he wasn’t sure if Wilkerson hit him or threw something at him, but he left the residence and called 911, the report says, adding that a deputy didn’t see any obvious injuries on the man and he refused medical treatment.
Deputies then made contact with Wilkerson, who was wrapping her foot with a bandage. She said she had stepped on a piece of glass from a broken light bulb and she also refused medical treatment, the report says.
Wilkerson told deputies the man was upset with her “due to her contact with other men.” She claimed she “said nothing to him, never touched him and ignored him completely,” the report says.
Wilkerson was taken into custody and transported to the Marion County Jail, where she was charged with domestic battery on a person 65 years of age or older. She was being held on $2,500 bond and is due in court on Nov. 26 at 9 a.m. to answer to the charge.